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Making Resilience Building Integral to the Design Process

11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Lynnwood Convention Center - Room 2A
Speaker: Bob Scarfo, Ph.D., RLA; Land and Life, LLC 

Description:

Successful landscape architecture firms are used to thinking strategically about their design practice, but how does this strategic thinking translate into planning for the firm’s next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders? This session explores the strategies, techniques and lessons learned in developing successional ownership transition plan. Learn the means and methods of successional planning, as well as the key elements of the plan itself, during this panel discussion with experts in business and landscape architecture practice. HSW-No

Learning Objectives:
  • Appreciate the full potential of landscape architecture as a profession.
  • Understand the breadth of our constituency and the potential for impactful design.
  • Explore a breadth of projects that focus on socially-purposeful design.
  • Know why Stephen Hawking aspires to be a landscape architect.
Speaker Bio:

Bob Scarfo taught landscape architecture in Canada and the US for 39 years. A primary driver of his work was that students should be contributing to the greater community through their learning experiences. Now, through Land and Life, LLC his background is translated into aiding nonprofits and neighborhood associations to identify underutilized assets in their community, bringing them together as partners, and assisting their working for their organizations’ goals and a greater good, a more resilient community.